Friday, 25 April 2014

Well bless my cotton socks, it's Friday

Only a four day week, so however it was experienced, it really was one day shorter than a normal week. And for that, I salute it.

To be honest, it was a fairly steady week for me. We have been requested to complete an insanely large amount of training by the end of this month, so I did take the opportunity to catch up on some of it. I have been chipping away at the courses, and am four courses from the end, so not too far to go.

No news on my potential new job. A colleague/friend, who is in a similar role to me but a contractor (a very rare breed in Starfleet at the moment, with a pretty comprehensive cull under way), contacted me the other day to say that his CV, which was sent to the prospective new boss on my potential new job (lot of variability in that statement), had been forwarded to another bit of the business requiring his skills, a combination of solutioning, Oracle and Cloud, and the colleague/friend has had an initial phone interview which seemed to go well. He would be more than happy to go permanent if the deal were right, so here's hoping that something comes of that. But not before something comes of my job lead.

This weekend, if the weather permits (and it currently says that 10-4 on Saturday may be dry, but otherwise the whole weekend is wet), I will be starting to prepare the garden for the upcoming work, and generally pottering around, taking the Maggots to their clubs, until late afternoon when we will be preparing for the visit of David and Samantha, minus the eldest Maggot who is on a Duke of Edinburgh's weekend*. It is always a pleasure, and many promises to "not drink too much" will be made at 8pm, to be utterly ignored at 10pm. Such fun.